A man of approximately 60 years was found lifeless in Canaletas with no signs of violence yesterday. After investigating the causes of death, he takes a strong view of the hypothesis that a heat stroke caused death after the high temperatures recorded these days in the city. In addition, as the newspaper Ara has advanced, the victim was very warm.
The warning signal was given by some people who were walking in the area, since they alerted the emergency services that they had seen an unconscious man. The Urban Guard was the first to arrive at the scene prior to the arrival of the Mossos d’Esquadra. The Medical Emergency Services tried to revive him, but could not do anything to save his life.
Not even the Heat Plan activated by Barcelona City Council has been able to prevent the man’s death. One of the key points of this device was to distribute information, hats and water to homeless people in vulnerable situations. As of today, this Plan is deactivated because the weather forecast points to a normalization of temperatures.
